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Is manual approval a safety net or a bottleneck? We explore why high-velocity DevOps teams are moving beyond pre-release validation toward production observability, using techniques like dark launches and canary releases to automate the path to production.

OK, you have mastered the way your particular language represents dates and times. But this is just the start. Doing arithmetic with dates can go well beyond just working out the interval between two fixed points. What about the third Thursday in the month. or how many days are we from the previous 11th of the month? Find out how to hack dates.

Programming News and Views

Espressif has announced the ESP32-S31 and it qualifies as the RISC V device we have all been waiting for. It is fast, has two cores and lots of radio features including WiFi, Bluetooth, Thread and Zigbee.

Coursera is again offering an attractive saving on its annual Coursera Plus subscription. This prompted us to take a look at its resources for gaining  hands-on experience of Claude, focusing on practical application and building with its API.

Codacy has launched AI Inventory, a tool that automatically detects and catalogs AI model and tool usage across an organization's repositories by scanning source code artifacts.

Kotlin 2.3.20 has been released with improvements to compatibility with Gradle and Maven. Progress has also been made on some of the compiler plugins.

Gold Lapel is a self-optimizing PostgreSQL proxy designed to automatically tune, improve query performance and replace external services without requiring any changes to your application's code.

Intel researchers have demonstrated a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) chip that can work with encrypted data much faster than rival technologies. The demonstration took place at the recent IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

Decorating eggs is part of the Easter tradition. Monday sees egg rolling on the lawn of the White House. If you want a perfectly decorated egg for the occasion get an EggBot to do it for you.

AI-trained robotic mice have been developed to inspect the internals of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The mouse-sized robots have been awarded a Highly Commended level at the Collaborate to Innovate Awards.

If you like to understand things, then the mystery of elliptic curve cryptography might just be something that annoys you as well as me. I sort of get it, but not really. Now you can look at how it all works with an interactive implementation.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the release of Kubescape 4 with runtime threat detection and the addition of AI agent scanning.

Introducing an implementation of the Model Context Protocol within Kali Linux to create AI-driven cybersecurity workflows.

Book Watch

This book shows how to move from C++ to Rust with ease by learning how to write safe, modern systems code using familiar examples. Dan Olson starts with a look at Rust’s history, safety guarantees, and development tooling. From there, the book compares Rust and C++ side by side, covering syntax, SIMD instructions, file I/O, object orientation, and data structures.
The latter half of the book tackles performance optimization, multithreading, macros, and foreign function interfaces, culminating in a complete project where you reimplement a C++ program in Rust.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the algorithms that keep our digital lives safe—how they work, what makes them different, and why they are secure. Mike Rosulek focuses on provable security—the process of defining what it means to be secure and mathematically proving security properties—to demystify the study of cryptography.

This book tells the story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare. In 2017, a small crew gathered in the Pentagon to work out how the USA military could use AI. They enlisted an initially reluctant Silicon Valley, supercharged the growth of Palantir, and sent algorithms made by Amazon, Microsoft, and others into hot wars. Maven fielded technology to identify targets at speed and scale, developed AI-infused command systems, and learned where AI fails. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with insiders and opponents, this compelling narrative tells the definitive story of how AI warfare, once the stuff of apocalyptic science fiction, has become a reality.

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